Who is Carlos Cabreiro, the new national director of the PJ

Until now director of the National Unit to Combat Cybercrime and Technological Crime (UNC3T), Carlos Cabreiro was appointed national director of the Judiciary Police, the Government announced this Tuesday.

The information was released through a note from the office of the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, who had already said, in statements at the end of the meeting of the Superior Council for Internal Security, which approved the Annual Internal Security Report (RASI) for 2025, that the name would be known this Tuesday.

Carlos Cabreiro, from 59 years oldsenior criminal investigation coordinator, is from Miranda do Dourograduated in Law from the Autonomous University of Lisbon and postgraduate degree in information warfare from the Military Academy. This in the Judicial Police since 1991according to the note released by the prime minister’s office.

In 2016, he was appointed director of UNC3T, where he led the highly publicized investigation into the hacker, creator of the Football Leaks platform who illegally accessed computer systems and released thousands of confidential documents related to international football and alleged illicit financial practices.

Carlos Cabreiro now succeeds , recently Minister of Internal Administration, as national director of the PJ.